So layoffs and retrenchments are similar, except that retrenchment is often looked at, technically, as more permanent, and layoffs, as I mentioned, might be temporary.
The Trump administration last week sent reductions in force notices, otherwise known as RIFs, to about 4,000 employees at more than half a dozen federal agencies.
So is the end-goal: bosses often use voluntary redundancy as a consensual way to cut headcount but the assumption is usually that they want the organisation itself to survive.